Thomas Paine Museum in the news again

The Thomas Paine Museum story has now been picked up by respected media-blogger Robert Cox in a report entitled:

EXCLUSIVE: New Rochelle's Thomas Paine Museum Seized by New York State Attorney General and Board of Regents Submitted by Robert Cox on Mon, 06/29/2009 - 17:13.

The link his here: http://www.newrochelletalk.com/node/797

The interview and discussion with Kenneth Burchell on Freedom Rings radio with moderator Kenneth Johns on WRMN 1410 AM, Elgin, Illinois, USA can be accessed at http://www.freedomrings.net/html/archives.htm

The United States of America needs a new political party born of the unfinished business of the American Revolution -- much like Horace Greeley said of the Republican Party when it was created back in the mid 1850s. The Republican Party was originally created to resolve the issue of slavery versus free labor, free land, free speech and free people. The Whig and Democratic Parties failed to resolve the issue and both shattered over internal divisions. The Republican Party that arose in their stead was originally pro-tariff and anti-slavery. The two great American political issues of the Nineteenth Century were slavery and banking. The slavery issue -- at least chattel slavery -- was solved, but the issue of wage-slavery and banking exploitation was never resolved. In fact, I would argue that the bank monopolies prevailed. Study the debates in that surrounded creation of Hamilton's first Bank of the United States. The Congress of the United States farmed out its constitutional currency creating powers to a private banking corporation, setting off a two-hundred year struggle that still threatens to collapse the remains of the republic. Unless we mobilize the citizenry, the international banking/financial interests will extinguish the U. S. before the U. S. can begin to extinguish the banking cartels.

Thomas Paine on human nature

"Human nature is not of itself vicious." Thomas Paine - Rights of Man, II, 1792

Another phony Thomas Paine quote

The following quote is presently proliferating around the web as attributed to Thomas Paine: “A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.” The quote is not Thomas Paine: it's from Edward Abbey.

Bill Moyers followup

FYI, I did in fact post some comments to Moyer's blog re: the mistakes in his intro. My comments to him and one of his readers are both here:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2009/06/the_spirit_of_thomas_paine_tod.html#comments

Impoverished Paine - NOT!

On the subject of Paine's supposed impoverishment at death, the administration of his will showed that he was worth conservatively about $8000.00 in currency of the time. In today's dollars that would be worth about $141,000.00. Not bad and not poverty by any stretch.